Easy Owl Craft for Kids – Make your own line-up of owls, using cotton batting

This craft was a hoot. I couldn’t help myself, sorry. But it is true. I think these fluffy little owls are as cute as can be and it really is an easy, easy craft. My five- and two-year-old both loved it and I luckily had all the items here at home. I stole this idea from preschool.

I especially like how you can line up your kid’s projects – so you can have a long row of owls. This looks really cool in a classroom or a hallway at school.

YOU WILL NEED

Construction paper – black, brown, orange and yellow

Cotton batting or stuffing – From an old throw pillow or quilt batting. You could try cotton balls but I had a hard time getting them to stick together.

Garage sale price stickers – or you can just cut out round eyes from regular paper

Scissors

Glue

HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWL PERCH

Start with a full size sheet of black construction paper.

Cut out a tree branch using brown construction paper. Free hand it. Add some stubs to make it look like a real branch. You could probably add some lines to give the look of bark.

Use a some cotton batting to make a little poof (real technical huh?) – put a TON of glue on the paper where you want your owl to be. We used a glue stick, I’m not sure it will work with drippy glue. Smoosh your owl down on the glue. Make sure it will stick well.

Cut out little feet from the orange paper. Glue them to the paper, with part of them tucked up under the owl.

Cut out a little triangle for the nose. Glue it to the owl. Push down to make sure it will stick.